Computer Science Teacher

These days mobile devices are everywhere. One of the cool things about Windows Mobile devices (Smartphones and Pocket PCs among others) is t...

Note that since I wrote this there have been some changes. See this post for more information - http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/02/xna-is-de...

Edwin Guarin is driving a bus fitted out as a high tech, lots of games and devices, digital dorm room to campuses around the NorthEast.  H...

This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8. The "money line" in the inte...

OK that is a fairly provocative title. But I think it is actually a fair and reasonable question. The decision last week to drop one of the ...

Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers wit...

I never thought I'd see Guy Kawasaki at a Microsoft event but it happened. Earlier this week Guy Kawasaki interviewed Steve Ballmer at ...

Well there are always questions about an handheld game device from Microsoft. Well this isn't it. But what the XNA team did announce tod...

OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that  Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The...

Did you know that next week is National Engineering Week ? Well it is. So in honor of that a few links. Check out the Try Science web site...

It looks like Maker Faire is starting to ramp up for this coming May. I'm trying to see if I can justify a trip out to California for i...

Over the holiday I did some browsing around the Internet. I found a couple of new blogs to follow, read some posts by people who hadn't ...

At their best teacher blogs are full of information and idea sharing that benefits other teachers. For teachers of computer science or compu...

Sometimes it really pays to have smart friends and let them figure things out for you even if you don't really plan it that way. Early t...

Popfly is a very easy to use and yet powerful mashup tool for non-professional developers. It's really a lot of fun to use and lets ama...

My friend Mac is building a PC from parts. Over at Channel 8 ( First post in the series here ) he's looking for recommendations and su...

I found out about a bunch of new videos that show how to do different things with different Microsoft development products. They all run be...

November was an interesting month in some ways. It seems that when I really for for an opinion piece it attracts more attention in both read...

Here is a little goody for all of you out there (especially you math teachers) who are always struggling to add mathematical things (formula...

I've written before about the Wii controller with links to software that allows a programmer to use a WiiMote with a Windows computer ...